In a frazzled state I am writing this: in an attempt to make my javascript code in VS Code to run, I did something which might be completely unrelated to the issue (by discarding all untracked changes in source control), after which many of my files in the folders under document & all files in desktop disappeared. Is there a way to retrieve all these materials? I am in deep regret and have to learn from this mistake which might cause irreversible deletion.
Unfortunately the trash did not include anything. Even worse, these stuff may not have a backup.